2 out of 3 is the time-tested adage for complex projects. Especially this crash program to Planet Trump, formally known as the moon. But the Orange One's fingers are all over it. So pick 1 out of 3 and it can't be safety.

Sourced entirely from Amazon and Homer Simpson at the controls.

if mankind and clocks are still alive... How far down the road was this can kicked? Guestimating the slope of a plot on wiki, the leap second drift looks to be about 30 seconds every 50 years. So a 1 hr drift works out to 6000 years. So watch out in 8025! Bad pun and I leave the the error analysis as an exercise for the reader ;)

This proponents are working in a tough competitive field. The threshold for discovery is 5 sigma. Informal threshold for claiming a "hint" of something is 3 sigma. For fun, search up "particle physics papers with results less than 3 sigma.

I'm not surprised at all. 38% of people still approved of the Dear Leader. https://www.natesilver.net/p/t...

A Canadian researcher Prof I know who lived in the US for many years and held a prof position at a US institution. He lead a lead major breakthrough in high precision measurements of fundamental particles, and was leading several major experiments, and bringing lots of research money. With the current US administration busy destroying fundamental physics research and funding paths, this researcher recently accepted an offer at a top Canadian university. He relocated his family and his entire research team of mostly US graduate students and US post-docs to Canada. This rock-star researcher had standing offers at top US universities. He's on the sort of trajectory that leads to prestigious international prizes. His story is being repeated across the US in science and medicine. Canada and other countries are not focused on recruiting any researcher in the US. They are focused on landing top talent. Even if the US dumps the MAGA party, and congress funds a major long-term effort to restore its powerhouse of scientific and medical research, the process will take decades.

Just search it up. Finland provides really really good public primary and secondary schools and teachers for their kids. From Wiki... " All primary and secondary teachers must hold a master’s degree, and teaching is one of the most prestigious and selective professions in the country." Kids in Finland learn how to learn. Most likely they are using more of their screen time for that.

is not how it works. Especially with billionaire tech bros. Trust is build on an established track record of actions the earn trust. Need I go on?

A tour de force experiment and an important result, if correct. Most journal papers would require an embargo on announcing a result of this significance until the paper is published. Let's see the reviewed journal paper. Following that, in high energy particle physics the " is this result correct?" question would be answered through confirmation by an independent experiment. Unfortunately there are no other particle accelerators operating that could produce enough J/psi decays to confirm/reject this finding. As the Chinese scientific programs keep rolling with strong long term funding we can expect more of these unconfirmed discoveries. Unlike the US, which is gutting it's basic research programs, China has been on the opposite trajectory for many years. They may end up doing the confirmations themselves. As was done back in the day when the J/psi meson was discovered independently in the US at particle accelerators at SLAC and BNL.

The Duty to Save Lives: Federal law (46 U.S.C. 2304), the SOLAS Convention, and UNCLOS Article 98 mandate that ship masters proceed with all speed to rescue persons in distress at sea.Penalties for Refusal: In the United States, failing to render assistance when able can result in criminal penalties, including a fine up to $1,000 and imprisonment for up to 2 years Likely Zuck would be able to throw his ship's master under the bus for this. And the BS about being on a different channel. You are expected monitor VHF channel 16. It's not hard.

a model can fit any data set. The down side is the model is not useful.

at about $567/10 yrs = $60M/yr Zuckerberg spends more than that each year maintaining his fleet of yachts.

This time it's GOP politicians worried about loosing re-election in the midterms. Despite a Mighty Wind of speechifying, faux news support, and Epstein class PAC contributions. Even MAGA's get pissed off when their electric rates sky rocket and their house goes hot and dark.

Probably not yet. But the growth trajectory of the size and scope of these deals and the wealth and power of the Epstein billionaire class making these bets is concerning. Deals for ever more energy, compute, chips, AI algorithms for sale and rent, data centers, and data scraping, especially personal data, obtained legally or otherwise. These billionaires operate in different world where they are the superior chosen few, and the rest of us are there for the fleecing.

See, for example, the /. story from today "Truth Social To Sell Wall Street Firms the 'Fastest' Access To Trump's Post" Or White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt "We have strict ethical guide lines". Or just ask the Orange One's fellow Epstein class billionaires.